Pieces of a potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu will come barreling down to Earth on Sunday, landing in Utah, following a ...

Original article source: NASA prepares for all weather as OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample comes in for landing in Utah desert ...

Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the desert, the landing sequence for ... preliminary checks on the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission, shortly after ...

Now, after scrutinizing every square inch of the massive rock, NASA has narrowed down the possible landing ... asteroid’s material and return it to Earth. Selecting where to grab that sample ...

These form what is called a binary asteroid, like the famous pair of Didymos and Dimorphos, which NASA crashed a spacecraft into in 2022. The new data about binary asteroids comes from the ...

“Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule!” a commentator said on NASA’s live video webcast of the landing ... military’s Utah Test and Training Range. Four years after its 2016 launch, the ...

A building-sized asteroid will zoom by Earth Saturday, while another asteroid twice its size will make an even closer approach Monday, with NASA keeping an eye on the second asteroid due to its ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. An asteroid impacted Earth today, but it didn’t do any damage. The asteroid in ...

To collect its asteroid sample ... Within days of the sample's landing in Utah, the team hopes to start analyzing it at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. NASA will also preserve ...

The California company also just raised $40 million from investors. Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge plans to make history next year. The California company announced Tuesday (Aug. 20 ...